The Last Seduction (1994) at first seems to follow the classic Film Noir structure. It uses the three main themes of money, sex and murder. It has a fall guy, a femme fatale and her husband, the victim. It even makes a couple of casual references to the classic Film Noir Double Indemnity. But this film also completely diverts from classic Film Noir. Whereas in the classic Film Noir, the fall guy would always be the main protagonist. In The Last Seduction, Bridget, the femme fatale, is the protagonist, and you feel no sympathy for the fall guy, whereas in Double Indemnity, Walter is both the protagonist and the fall guy, and you do feel sympathy (to some extent) for him.
I personally thought that this film was a good homage to classic Noir. I also thought that whilst the ending scene was clever, and a twist I did not see coming, I felt it could have been handled more appropriately. Most viewers know what rape looks like, and whilst showing it explicitly is shocking, I felt this wasn't done to be shocking, it was just done because they didn't think of a way to make it shocking without showing it.
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